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Walt Whitman's law] in the composition process, correspond, like [Of Biography], to section 13 of the 1860

version of the poem Chants Democratic and Native American which was revised and permanently retitled

These lines were eventually revised to form section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem Chants Democratic

Premonition was published as the introductory poem to the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass under the title

verso of leaf 15 and part of leaf 16 appears a draft of what would become section 11 of Calamus in the 1860

1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; After being incorporated as the first main section of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesall leaves 21 x 13 cm; Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860

of Grass as main section 7 of Enfans d'Adam, and was retitled within the group We Two—How Long We Were

cm, leaf 2 11 x 16 cm; This poem, numbered 82 in pencil, became main section 8 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

50-51uva.00183xxx.00005xxx.00047xxx.00062[Once I passed through a populous]I am the child of Democracy1857

16 cm; The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

and were retitled Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City in 1867.

[Once I passed through a populous]

This poem was revised to form main section 10 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860, and in 1867 was given two new

was held]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; This manuscript became section 1 of Calamus in 1860

The five verses beginning "Was it I who walked the / earth..." were not used in Calamus, but the five

beginning "Scented herbage of my breast" became the opening verses of section 2 of the cluster in the 1860

1859poetryprosehandwritten5 leaves20 x 16 cm; The verses on the recto became lines 6-40 of section 2 of Calamus in the 1860

The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet.

The lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of Calamus. in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-9 of section 7 of Calamus in 1860, and the second leaf's

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-5 of section 8 of Calamus in 1860; the second leaf's lines

There were no further appearances of this poem during the poet's lifetime, Whitman having canceled it

in his Blue Book Copy of the 1860 Leaves.

numbers) in the lower-left corner of each page; his partly erased pencil note "(finished in/ the other city

removed the lower section of page 2 from the top of current leaf 1:3:33 ("I dreamed in a dream of a/ city

This poem, the eighth in the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, became section 9 of Calamus in 1860.

The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted

The seventh poem in the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, became section 10 of Calamus in 1860 and was permanently

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

of Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), this poem became section 11 of Calamus in 1860

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped

The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second

After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of Calamus in the 1860 Leaves, and

, after dropping the first two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it Roots

The first section of the original sequence Live Oak, with Moss, this became section 14 of Calamus in 1860

12 cm; Written on a light blue Williamsburgh tax blank, this poem became section 15 of Calamus in 1860

the poem became section 16 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses

of the poem during Whitman's lifetime: he rejected it from his Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass in 1860

It became number 17 of the Calamus cluster in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to

pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were

The verses became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently

titled City of Orgies in 1867.

City of my walks and joys

The group first appeared in print in the 1860 Leaves of Grass with this poem as section 1.

On the reverse of the leaf (uva.00023) are verses that became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition

of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently titled City of Orgies in 1867.

It became section 20 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses

This poem became section 21 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses

It was numbered section 22 of Calamus in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of

the 1860 version, and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10.

original sequence Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 23 of Calamus in 1860

In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of Calamus, transforming the title into a new first line and

this became section 27 of Calamus in 1860.

the new first line "A promise and gift to California,") this poem became section 30 of Calamus in 1860

In 1860 it became the second numbered verse paragraph of section 31 of Calamus.

In 1867 Whitman split up the two paragraphs and made them separate poems; these verses were moved to

In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling

The second set was revised to form section 38 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and

With substantial additions and revisions this evolved into section 37 of Calamus in 1860; after further

14.5 x 9.5 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860

Moss (with the Roman numeral ornamentally drawn), this was revised to become section 36 of Calamus in 1860

In 1860 this poem was substantially revised to form section 34 of Calamus; in 1867 it was retitled I

Both sections are in black ink but, as Bowers notes, the lower verses were inscribed using a darker,

section of the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, this poem was revised to form section 32 of Calamus in 1860

This poem became section 39 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman replaced the third line with a new one

original sequence Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 42 of Calamus in 1860

This was revised to form section 41 of Calamus in 1860 and was permanently retitled Among the Multitude

numeral), this was reformatted and renumbered but otherwise left unrevised as section 43 of Calamus in 1860

This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness

years old the/ eighty-first year of The States" indicate that Whitman composed the poem in 1857; these were

revised to read "I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States" in the 1860 Leaves, in which

It became section 4 of Chants Democratic in 1860.

In 1867 Whitman ungrouped it and retitled the poem American Feuillage, a name it kept until being permanently

This poem was first published in the January 14, 1860 issue of the New York Saturday Press under the

title You and Me and To-day, after which it became section 7 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves

The manuscript leaves correspond to the published verses in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Evolutions

In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass Whitman published this poem as section 8 of Chants Democratic.

Thought became section 9 of Chants Democratic in 1860.

These leaves correspond to the verses in the 1860 Chants Democratic version.

section contains, five undeleted draft lines that would become the final verses of Proto-Leaf in the 1860

These Thought lines became section 11 of Chants Democratic in 1860.

1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf20 x 16 cm pasted to 11 x 16 cm; After undergoing extensive revisions, in 1860

1858, under the working title Slavery—the Slaveholders—/ —The Constitution—the true America and Americans